Abandoned Farmhouse

Every now and again, it all comes together to give you a fantastic image. I had started out very, very, early, in order to get to The Roaches before sunrise, and give myself a chance of getting a good image. There wasn’t a lot going on in the sky, but I knew, as soon as the sun had topped Ramshaw Rocks, that this side of The Roaches would just burst into colour. At this point, I spotted this old, abandoned farm, and knew it would make a great subject as the early morning light hit it side on.

It was very cold on top – ice and frost everywhere. This made for great pictures.

The Roaches, by the way, are supposedly named after the french word for rocks – ‘roches’ – which became Roaches in the local Staffordshire dialect. They are not named after the insect!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sailaway from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain